The Head

I am starting my journey as anatomical cartographer with disorders of the head. I will travel through art, literature, case studies and medical narratives to map our stories and experiences of life with illness.

“We may see very clearly how the wrong sound, or “anti-music,” is pathogenic and migrainogenic; while the right sound—proper music—is truly tranquillising, and immediately restores cerebral health. These effects are striking, and quite fundamental, and put one in mind of Novalis’s aphorism: “Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.” ― Oliver Sacks